FCP Crashing and Hard computer Shut down

I hope that someone might be able to give me an explanation as to what his might be. If I am editing and I scrub forward and then BACKWARDS my computer CRASHES. The whole stinking think goes hard crash. This happens very frequently. At first I thought it might be the power supply, but it never crashes in other apps. Only in FCP and only when I am scrubbing or previewing and then move the timeline arrow to the front of a clip. Saving my project after every edit and or every 10 seconds is really getting old. Is there any other thought as to what this might be?

I think I have narrowed it down to the Video preview. Roland from T.O. suggested that it could be a firewire cable issue. I know that sound weird...but I open up FCP without my DV deck connected through the computer and nop video preview. I scrubbed the **** out of the project and really made it work. Viola...no crashes. So today I will try a new cable....if it still crashes with the preview.....that would mean it is a bad Firewire port. (I would assume)
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